Guilt and the Algorithm

In-depth · AI and justice

Guilt and the Algorithm

Predictive justice, risk scores and the presumption of innocence

"The score can be calculated. Guilt must be judged. They are not, and never will be, the same thing."

Guilt is judged - a score is computed

From the book «Beyond Turing - The Incalculable Remainder»

Inside the article

The three knots

The risk score

A statement about classes, not persons

Statistics seeks the similar; justice guards the unique. The three structural limits of the score: statistical, semantic, decisional.

Judgment and the AI Act

The algorithm informs, it does not replace

The involuntary conditioning of human judgment and the architecture that safeguards it: from adversarial proceedings to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.

Digital prejudice

The memory that does not forget

The accusation indexed forever, the silent acquittal: permanent reputational conviction and the right to be forgotten.

Antonio Fabbrizio
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Professor, engineer and researcher - eCampus University